"LANDFALL"
Sir,-"Landfall", which was given at 2 p.m. on a recent Sunday should have been a beautiful performance-beautiful music (with some wild primeval note of the wind in it) wedded to beautiful verse. But the voice of the reader marred all. He "elocuted". to such purpose that I did not catch one sentence. The senseless rise and fall of the voice robbed the words of all meaning, and distracted the mind. He may have thought he was speaking with the tongues of angels (a cherubin blast), but he became as sounding brass, Why must such things be? Surely a reader could be found with a simple, God-given voice?
E.M.
D.
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 184, 31 December 1942, Page 3
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111"LANDFALL" New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 184, 31 December 1942, Page 3
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